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Direction: Pérez Rojas; Carlos
Participation year at FICM: 2012

Director Movies

Mëjk

Mëjk is a documentary that follows the happenstances in the life of Genaro, who, while teaching grade school in a Mixe community in Oaxaca, Mexico, learns something himself. 

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Open Sky

The largest gold deposit in Mexico is in the Ejido of Carrizalillo, in the state of Guerrero. At the beginning of 2007, the landowners demanded that Goldcorp, a Canadian transnational company, pay them rent for their land and provide social benefits for the community.

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And the river flows on

Since 2003, the Mexican government has been trying to build the "La Parota" hydroelectric dam. If built, it would flood several communities south of Acapulco. In this documentary, the campesinos, who have resisted this project, show us their lives, work and love of the land.

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